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PLAN IMPROVEMENTS FOR DEVONSHIRE NEW ORLEANS, La., December 18. At a meeting of the directors of the Devonshire track, Windsor, Out., held here, 00,000 worth of improvements, including a steeplechase course, new steel and concrete grandstand, new paddock, clubhouse and several stables were voted. Bradley Wilson, general manager of the Devonshire Course, presided at the meeting, which was attended by Mayor E. R. Winter of Windsor; W. R. Wollatt, president of the Devonshire track; J. Fred Reed and P. J. England, also of Windsor; James Arthur, G. R. Bryson and G. II. Kecne. Last summer found the two Devonshire meetings among the most successful on the Canadian circuit, and as a result of this the directors at the local session voted the stockholders a 10 per cent stock dividend. The rest of the earnings will be put back into the racing plant in an effort to bring it up to the standard of any course in Canada. There is ample room at Devonshire to extend the grandstand and clubhouse so that several thousand more patrons can be cared for and thus avoid the congestion that continually prevailed last summer. The addition of a steeplechase course will be a big thing at Devonshire, as it will attract the best junipers in the country there. Neither the old Windsor track nor the Kenilworth course has jumping races, despite the fact that this branch of racing always proved popular to the turf followers of Detroit, and the Devonshire people will be filling a long-felt want. Lewis Garth and many other horsemen who race jumpers extensively have notified Mr. Wilson that they will do all in their power to make this end of tiie sport a success at Devonshire by sending their best fencers there.
